Tarana Wireless, Inc., announced that Digital Alpha Advisors, has joined Tarana’s investor group. The $50 million (€46.92 million) up round led by Digital Alpha is focused on both accelerating Tarana’s growth in sales and deployment of G1 (generation 1), its next-generation fixed wireless access (ngFWA) platform, as well as expanding R&D investment. This will thereby help to build on Tarana’s foundational advances in wireless broadband technology. Tarana’s valuation increase reflects the Tarana’s performance and market traction. (more…)
September 16, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Molex has released a report that highlights opportunities and obstacles facing product design engineers as the future of connectivity continues to unfold. The report, “Predicting the Connectivity of Tomorrow: Innovations Driving the Connected World,” offers insights into changing future connectivity, which is poised to unlock product creations. (more…)
September 15, 2023
Posted by: Janmesh Chintankar
Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) has announced public release of Get Ready for Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) 7: Applying new capabilities to the key use cases, a report that explores how this technology will change the way people worldwide live, work and play. Based on the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) 802.11be (extreme high throughput) standard, Wi-Fi 7 has a variety of advanced capabilities. These will improve existing use cases or enable recent ones that are not possible with existing wired and wireless technologies. (more…)
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced product creations to enable small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) to improve customer networks with high speed, increased capacity, and strengthened security. HPE Aruba Networking introduces Aruba instant on AP22D, a Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) 6 access point, and Aruba instant on 1960 stackable switch with 2.5GB port capacity. (more…)
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Trusted Connectivity Alliance (TCA) has announced election of Bertrand Moussel (Valid) as chair of board for 2023-4. The organisation works to promote eSIM (embedded subscriber identity module) interoperability, advanced use of eSIM technology across upcoming IoT (internet of things) use-cases and support sustainable creation. Moussel has served on TCA’s board since 2016 and succeeds Claus Dietze (Giesecke+Devrient), who stepped down following three consecutive terms as chair. Dietze remains on board alongside Benoit Collier (IDEMIA), Christian Vignes (STMicroelectronics) and Stephane Quetglas (Thales). The re-election of Cyril Caillaud (NXP Semiconductors) and Jean-Philippe Betoin (Kigen) to the two rotating seats completes the board for 2023-4. (more…)
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Fujitsu General Australia and Fujitsu General New Zealand have partnered with Sensibo. This partnership will provide smart home air conditioning (AC) solutions. Sensibo is a climate technology internet of things (IoT) company that develops smart AC and heat pump solutions, using data and artificial intelligence (AI), for a more sustainable world. (more…)
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Kobai, has announced collaboration with Databricks. With this collaboration, joint customers can leverage insights of knowledge graphs with scalability and power of Databricks lakehouse platform. Kobai’s saturn platform is embedded directly in data layer, allowing organisations to query data without moving it from lakehouse, with W3C (world wide web consortium) and lakehouse open standards providing complete interactivity. (more…)
September 13, 2023
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nexfibre, in partnership with Virgin Media O2, has reached an agreement with fibre operator, Upp, to acquire provider. The acquisition will boost fibre footprint of nexfibre by 175,000 premises in East of England and ensure investment and network build in region continues for years to come. The all-cash deal sees Virgin Media O2 initially purchase provider and carry out integration work, but nexfibre will thereby fund acquisition through a back-to-back agreement to buy Upp’s network assets. (more…)
September 12, 2023
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Iridium Communications Inc., announced that Xuzhou Construction Machinery Group (XCMG), will deploy Iridium IoT (internet of things) services on its global fleet of heavy equipment, starting with excavators and expanding to loaders and crane trucks as needed. XCMG will utilise Iridium’s global network to maintain critical connectivity with their heavy equipment in main locations including Australia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, and Central Asia. (more…)
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According to recent studies conducted by Deloitte, an average number of connected devices in US households has risen to 22. This and other trends are pushing FCC (federal communications commission) to raise previous definition of broadband, 25Mbps (megabits per second), to 100Mbps goal and Airvine describes in a blog post how property owners, management companies and managed service providers in ‘MDU’ (multi-dwelling unit) sector can provide necessary broadband network upgrades within these buildings. (more…)
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